At the start of a song, iTunes freezes and it stutters

With the new install of iTunes on Windows XP, it consumes more than 97% of CPU at the start of a song with the result that the song plays like as if some one is stuttering the song and I hate it. It was never an issue with the earlier version of iTunes. The newer version also consumes 17-20% of CPU to play a song and this was not the case either earlier.
Is there a workaround to this? I have an IBM T41 laptop. Nothing has changed on my laptop except that I have a newer version of iTunes.
Your help or thoughtful ideas are appreciated except the suggestion to buy a newer and faster laptop or switch to Mac OS.

I had this problem with the freezing and stuttering. I solved this by unchecking 'crossfade playback' in edit/preferences/playback. It means you have a pause between songs during playback, but thats like most CD players anyway.
Hope this helps you.
Dell Optiplex GX240   Windows XP Pro  

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